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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 1976
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1975
Daniel T Thompson, Pacific Palisades, CA (US);
Thomas A Rowland, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A dough proofing apparatus is for use in association with a dough forming apparatus having a dough piece receiving means which receives preformed dough pieces from a dough dividing machine and directs them toward a toroid forming apparatus wherein the proofing apparatus includes dough conveyance means for receiving and conveying dough pieces in a proofing mode of travel through a closed loop path of travel of the conveyor belt between generally adjacent dough entry and dough exit locations on the toroid forming apparatus. The conveyance belt is passed over vertically spaced pulleys with dough pieces retained thereon by adjacent dough support means on the conveyance belt which cooperate to form open-ended cage-like dough retaining receptacles for dough pieces as they travel on the conveyance means over and about the vertically spaced pulleys. In an alternative embodiment thereof, the conveyance means has its vertically spaced pulleys mounted on axes at various angles to one another in order to provide a change in axis of rotation for the conveyance belt of 180.degree. as it goes about the closed loop path of travel to reverse the inner and outer sides of the conveyance belt once per complete revolution. Alternative forms of dough receptacles are also disclosed.